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The first episode premiered on Halloween 2005 with Lynn.

What are your all time favourite games/people from the show in it's almost 11 year run?

We can only pray for a reboot someday

My top 100 in chronological order:
Lynn (31st October 2005)
Anita (2nd November 2005)
Oli (5th November 2005)
Natalie (10th November 2005)
Madie (15th November 2005)
Jennifer (18th November 2005)
Mally (24th November 2005)
Trevor (25th November 2005)
Raj (29th November 2005)
Andy K (30th November 2005)
Sara (7th December 2005)
Max (30th December 2006)
Nick (3rd January 2006)
Geordie (1st February 2006)
Brenda (9th February 2006)
Trevor (1st March 2006)
Germaine (7th March 2006)
Matt (21st March 2006)
Aaron (29th March 2006)
"50 Shows" Lucy (30th March 2006)
Kirsty (4th April 2006)
Gaz (2nd May 2006)
Pat M (3rd May 2006)
Morris (6th May 2006)
Gary (11th May 2006)
Peter (9th June 2006)
Pennie (24th June 2006)
Sally (14th July 2006)
Buddy (15th July 2006)
Lance (30th August 2006)
"Tax Free" Harry (22nd October 2006)
Danny (26th December 2006)
Laura (7th January 2007)
Bunney (31st January 2007)
Georgina (14th February 2007)
Doug (15th March 2007)
Rich (27th March 2007)
Graeme (4th May 2007)
"Naughty Boy" Shahid (9th May 2007)
Rodney (11th June 2007)
Maria (8th July 2007)
Igor (9th July 2007)
Jon G (27th August 2007)
Daniel (28th August 2007)
Theresa (12th September 2007)
Maria (25th September 2007)
James (26th September 2007)
Ed (16th October 2007)
Chris (31st October 2007)
Charly (5th November 2007)
Orry (21st December 2007)
Clive (4th January 2008)
Matt (14th March 2008)
Eunice (7th April 2008)
Graham (6th May 2008)
Betty (7th May 2008)
Tom (12th May 2008)
Emjay (20th May 2008)
Tommii (13th June 2008)
Jess (2nd July 2008)
Nikki (26th August 2008)
Julie (7th October 2008)
Adam (16th November 2008)
Keran (23rd November 2008)
Lauren (21st December 2008)
"Christmas Star" Ian (24th December 2008)
Mary (5th January 2009)
Doreen (27th February 2009)
Alice (12th March 2009)
"H2005" David (23rd March 2009)
Amy (11th June 2009)
Calum (24th July 2009)
Corinne (7th December 2009)
Gaz (26th February 2010)
Ramesh (6th April 2010)
Christopher (26th October 2010)
Hitch (12th November 2010)
Dale (26th January 2011)
Suzanne (13th May 2011)
Gurpal (30th August 2011)
Tegen (22nd September 2011)
Rich (6th February 2012)
Mark (16th March 2012)
Louis Walsh (7th May 2012)
Mark (29th July 2012)
Nong (5th August 2012)
Scott (21st August 2012)
Dee (10th June 2013)
Marlene (21st July 2013)
Paddy (12th August 2013)
Roop (12th February 2014)
Pat (10th March 2014)
Gill (23rd March 2014)
James Corden (4th July 2014)
Noel Edmonds (18th September 2015)
Pat and Steph (21st September 2015)
Ann (15th October 2015)
Max (18th October 2015)
Laurence (27th November 2015)
Vikki (23rd December 2016)

Hopefully it will get rebooted someday, although now we're in the era of COVID and DOND was played with all the other contestants close together, that could be a LONG way off yet...

Did you travel back in time to April 2020 to post this?

That is a comprehensive and interesting list though. I might come up with one (2005 - 2008 only though) that should provide a firm representation of the best/worst of DOND if, say, they were to only keep *those* episodes and delete/wipe/erase the rest (not a very unlikely prophecy if I being honest).

No, although I probably said something along those lines back then.

I’d be interested to see what your favourites from 05-08 are, as the vast majority of my top 100 are (as you can clearly see) from that era.

You can skip quite a number of the November 2005 - January 2006. They have aged particularly badly, as much as we criticised the auditions process it was probably necessary to weed out those who really weren't TV standard personality wise. The production is rather shonky too.

To make a start:

Oli (05/11/2005)

(yes, I'm skipping the first actual episode. The first few weeks all felt like the 'first show', trust me.)

Natalie (10/11/2005)

Adrienne (11/2005)

Jennifer (18/11/2005)

Sam (11/2005)

Raj (29/11/2005)

Andy Kelly (30/11/2005)

Rita (01/12/2005)

James (02/12/2005)

Kai (12/2005)

Rob (12/2005)

Chris (12/2005)

Max (30/12/2005)

Nick (03/01/2006)

Jenni (04/01/2006)

Dave (05/01/2006) (those three work well as a trilogy)

Julie (19/01/2006)

Marie (28/01/2006)

Geordie (01/02/2006)

Vanessa (day after)

Brenda (09/02/2006)

Daz (11/02/2006)

John G (18/02/2006)

Fin (20/02/2006)

Russell (02/2006, received wisdom for this one, never seen but apparently a good comedy episode, idk)

Okiem (23/02/2006) (audience participation was once a revolutionary concept)

Trevor (01/03/2006)

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That's the 'demo' period covered, just dipping into the 'colour' era. The rest will require more thinking (five minutes worth)